RMU build Gen-1.5: IV. Best Practices - C. Dell OpenManage Enterprise

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C. Dell OpenManage Enterprise (Recommended)

This is a service that allows you to talk to the Baseboard Management Controller(s) (BMC) of your IC nodes. This service will allow you to discover your Dell’s servers iDRACs (Dell’s version of a BMC.) Once configured, you will be able to apply firmware updates remotely.

Create VM

1. From the main Proxmox page, select Create VM to launch the Create: Virtual Machine dialog window.
2. Tick the Advanced box and the Start at boot: box, then enter VM ID of 123, set Name: to <dc>-ome. Enter 10 into the Start/Shutdown Order:. Select Next.

1. Select Do not use any media. Set Type: to Other. Select Next.

1. Ensure that Graphic card: is set to Default, SCSI Controller: is set to VirtIO SCSI single, Machine: is set to Default (i440fx), BIOS: is set to Default (SeaBIOS). Select Next.

1. Ensure that Bus/Device: is set to IDE & 0, Storage: is set to local-zfs, Disk size (GiB): is set to 8, Backup: box is ticked, Async IO: is set to Default (io_uring). Select Next.

1. Set Sockets to 1, set Type: to X86-64-v2-AES, set Cores: to 8. Select Next.

1. Set Memory(MiB): to 16767 and Minimum memory (MB): to 2048. Select Next.
2. Set Bridge: to vmbr1, set Mode: to Intel E1000, Disable the Firewall: tickbox. Select Next.
3. Do NOT tick the Start after created because we need to map the (soon to be downloaded) OME image to a disk. Select Finish.

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